When I dye up rovings, usually I have a plan in mind. Occasionally I just gather up all the half-used dye bottles and dump them on some unsuspecting fiber, but usually I have some specific color combinations that I’m aiming for.

Good Idea

In this case, the colorway plan was “Plums and Greengages”. I pictured red and purple plums and the “frosted” paler colors they sometimes have, along with the contrasting acid yellow-green of greengages (ie, green plums). I think I succeeded pretty well in capturing what I was after and I’m happy with the colors. If this doesn’t sell, I’ll very gladly spin it up for myself.

Bad Idea

Another idea I had involved the signature lime green and bright pink colors used by hoity toity resortwear designer Lilly Pulitzer. If you’re not familiar with her work, pop on over to her web site and you’ll get the idea.

My first idea was “Lilly Pulitzer in a Blender”, but I had the feeling that bright pink and lime green and bright red wouldn’t be that great together. Then I thought, “Lilly Pulitzer Goes Goth!”, but I wasn’t too sure about black and bright pink and lime green. After a while I remembered the silvery gray Brown Sheep roving that I’ve overdyed a couple times with good results, so I said, “Hey, I’ll do ‘Lilly Pulitzer Gets Lost in the Fog’!”

Um. Yeah.

I think I might put this on the Etsy store just to see if anyone buys it. I don’t know who would want to, but taste is such an individual thing. If there are people who like malted milk balls and Clay Aiken CDs and Thomas Kinkade paintings, there must be someone out there who will just love “Lilly Pulitzer Got Lost in the Fog”.